(n.) The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.
(n.) That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
(n.) A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
(n.) The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
Example Sentences:
(1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(2) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(3) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(4) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(5) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(7) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(8) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(9) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(10) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
(11) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
(12) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
(13) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
(14) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(15) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
(16) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
(17) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(18) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(19) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(20) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
Fistula
Definition:
(n.) A reed; a pipe.
(n.) A pipe for convejing water.
(n.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
(2) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(3) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
(4) Eight vagotomy-gastrectomy dogs were studied; 4 had a jejunal fistula, and 4 other dogs without a fistula served as controls.
(5) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(6) Treatment of these fistulas is usually complicated, and the recovery period is prolonged.
(7) This proved that all four fistulas were acquired and that they were probably caused by the catgut ligatures used for ampullary ligation.
(8) In three patients, a vesico-enteric fistula was documented.
(9) The incidence of bronchopleural fistula was 4.2% in group 1 and 15.2% in group 2 (p less than 0.05).
(10) Nineteen Dacron velour fistula bypasses between the brachial artery and median basilic vein were performed in fifteen selected patients for a total dialysis period of ninety-six months.
(11) The results presented in this paper show that chronic lymphatic fistulae can be established successfully in fetal calves to give access to recirculating lymphocytes.
(12) Direct visualization of the intercavernous sinuses on contrast-enhanced MR images may serve as an ancillary sign for the diagnosis of carotid-cavernous or carotid-dural fistulas near the sella.
(13) than cimetidine and ranitidine, respectively, at inhibiting acid output in betazole-stimulated total gastric fistula dogs.
(14) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(15) The fistula was ligated by an access through the right atrium with good nearest and long-term results.
(16) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
(17) In addition, quantification of fluid output from a fistula may be grossly inaccurate.
(18) As with abdominal abscess drainage, a preexisting fistula may be opacified only after several days of catheter drainage and cannot be predicted at the time of initial aspiration.
(19) Spontaneous aortoduodenal fistula is a rare disease.
(20) Good to excellent results were found in more than 85 percent of them in the control saliva, and there have been no recurrences or fistulae.